All the books by Joe Hill adapted to cinema and television, ranked

After Rendell Locke is murdered at the hands of former student Sam Lesser, his wife Nina decides to move with her three children, Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode, from Seattle to Matheson, Massachusetts, and take residence in Rendell’s family home, Keyhouse. They soon become aware, though, of a demonic entity that is also searching for the keys for its own malevolent purposes.

In the 1970s, five children go missing in a suburban Colorado town. Soon after, Finney Shaw is kidnapped by a serial killer and trapped inside of a soundproof basement. Finding a disconnected phone, Shaw discovers its ability to transmit the voices of the killer’s previous victims, who try to help him escape. Meanwhile, his sister finds she has recurring visions that may help her find Finney.

NOS4A2 follows Victoria Vic McQueen, a young working-class artist who discovers that she has a supernatural ability to track the seemingly immortal Charlie Manx. Manx feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland—a twisted Christmas Village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law.

Ignatius Ig Perrish is the prime suspect when his girlfriend, Merrin, is raped and murdered. After a vigil led by Merrin’s father, who believes Ig to be guilty, Ig drinks heavily, urinates on Merrin’s memorial, and wakes up with a pair of horns protruding from his head.

Siblings Becky, 6 months pregnant, and Cal DeMuth travel to San Diego. Concerned, they enter but quickly get separated and finds that their distance changes unnaturally. Cal stumbles across a bruised, dirty Tobin holding a dead crow. Tobin leads Cal to a rock in the field and tells him to touch it, interrupted by Becky’s scream, attacked by a ghost.